Can't believe that there are still some poeple who can't understand the real purpose of Merit after implementing it a couple of months already.

I would rather agree to @franky1's explanation comparing Merit about YouTube's views/likes than this one.

Nope, that's not the reason. If you will only read other member's replies in this thread and not just the topic, you will found out that OP is banned for Plagiarising.

OP, whoever or what kind of person you are. You are personally and officially banned from this forum.

Abusing Merits or trading it isn't allowed so users who will be caught doing such things will be punish for sure. They will receive Negative Trust, since Merit is not moderated they will not be banned (if my memory serves me right).

Based from the title itself, merit giver won't be punish as long as you distribute your sMerits in different good ways and it is much better to not receive any Merits than to get one from trading it.

Anyway, the answer for your question is too obvious. Making thread for topic like this is unnecessary. Please try to search and read sometimes.

Of course, the main reason why those spammers were really trying hard to receive merit is because of their paid signature campaign, they become greedy and they want higher rates. Don't worry about receiving merits, as long as people can find your post interesting and helpful there's a chance that even though you don't need Merits that much, you'll still will receive it.
Other members already answered it above. Just don't miss to read it.
That is actually the real purpose of the forum. As long as you're not violating any rules then just keep doing what you were doing. Merits will come to your way.

Well, you were right. So after Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements , this idea would be somehow the last request we can ask theymos for now as these two will already solve most of the existing problems. Spammer are already decreasing and abusers will be punish  


Even though the amount of Merit required on each rank increased, there are still a lot of possible merit abuse out there and there will be more. Can you imagine giving 50 Merits to a garbage post? 50 Merits to a one liner posts? It's a total abuse. So deMerit is the best solution.

Interesting, I'm willing to support this idea. Like what I expected, this new requirement to rank up to Jr. Member will surely reduce spam but the possible merit abuse will increase. By looking at that Hero member's merit history, I have doubts that those accounts s/he merited were her/his alt accounts or maybe this Hero member was paid by those spammers. This would really be a serious problem and this deMerit is the possible way to stop these abusers. Well, merit abuse has just getting started, lets expect that there will be more abuse later or sooner.

In the other side, I'm not sure if theymos will approve such idea because having a deMerit source will make the rules too strict, those merit abusers that will be caught can received Negative Trust so they can still received enough punishment. Second, I don't know if this will be implemented immediately, we must wait for a couple of weeks or more before he made a decision about this and apply it, theymos is busy as we can see. But overall, I will provide my support to this idea or else things will get worse, we have now successfully achieved lesser spam forum all that left is those abusers to be gone.

Woah, this is way impossible. There are millions (thousands?) of members here and million of posts are being generated every day and monitoring every one of their posts is a suicide and just a waste of time. How can you come up to idea like this? By just forecasting the possible outcome of your idea well its a total waste of time, really. Moderators can't even stand to monitor and ban other spammers without concerned member's reports and how do you think that they can monitor such millions of posts? Our Moderators are humans, not robots who can can execute millions of codes in just an instant.
Actually, activity is not important to spammers and twitbook hunters. As long as they can post links of their daily reports then they have no problem at all. So even if this one is applied, nothing will change.

Well here's mine so far. It took me about 10 minutes to finish it.

Oh by the way, this guy looks familiar, seems like I've seen this guy before licking his boobs since 1970

I'm about to quote the post to view the image but you are way faster than me. Well, I thought the image contain something special. So lucky I didn't quote it  

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Post something useful. No one will give you Merit if you keep posting shits like twitbook links and etc. just like this one..
Did you even know that we are working on reporting users who posts like this? By looking at your posts history you have no difference from users I've reported lately.
No! It is way much better if the required merits to rank up to Member stays 10 or higher. It is not too hard to achieve 10 Merits if you were posting valuable posts and not twitbook spam links. It is YOU who makes it impossible to receive Merits.

So you're always active here in the forum since February? Then why you didn't even managed to received any Merit yet? (because you're spamming). About that bold part, are you serious? Because I went through your posts history and all I saw are nothing but spams. You should spend some time visiting your own post history too sometimes.

Spammers doesn't deserved to have a job or earn here. It's your fault for choosing up the wrong way.

Edit.
What's with this? 

If you want to share your remaining sMerits, why don't you just go and look for good posts out there, making a thread about it is unnecessary if you really want to help those newbies.

Anyway, I believed this thread/topic doesn't belong here. Please move it to "Off-topic" by using the "Move topic" button at the lower corner of the thread.

Well, let's atleast expect it for more couple of days (or weeks)

This will be a historical day for spammers just like what happened before the Merit System was implemented back then.
Let's just brace ourselves for more incoming spam threads.

Finally, I've been waiting for this one. Now, let's see some changes around here. Nice one theymos, you really are the Boss.

Wow, that's a good news. Seems like the new restriction is working fine.
There will be definitely a lot of Merit trading will happen, but as long as there are some good members who helps Moderators and the community, we will catch those Merit traders. Oh anyway, what do you mean that it's "illegal"?   And what? You're telling theymos to think again? This is a made up decision and I'm sure Admin won't regret anything on implementing it. Also, who cares if spammers go look for another forum? It would be great actually.
Can you give me some examples of those users you were talking about?
Begging for Merit!
Yuph, this new requirement is not yet perfect and need some adjustment, how if instead of 1 Merit to be Jr. Member it should be 5? Much better isn't?
Have you ever tried to look at your spam posts history?
What a lot of valuable spam posts you got there.
It will be stopped obviously, thank goodness.
Oh boy, can't you read?  
It's because none of those 500+ posts deserves a single Merit.
The only one who can help you is yourself, make valuable post and stop spamming already.

Bitcointalk Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1091163
Post Count: 939
Merit Count: 291
BTC Address: 3JxvYBTV3mFiWpQADUe3xUHJspYPr5ncDF
Telegram Username: Silent_026

Thanks Zapo.

It's really unexpected  But what else can we do with it other than to follow it.

This thread might not help theymos to solve the problems of our forum quickly but if you read and understand the content of this thread clearly, you'll found out that the thread is created to somehow offer theymos the help of this Forum's community. Anyway, how if you're the one who should just mind your own business, its not your time that will be wasted trying to help the forum so please don't act like you're concerned.

Also, please don't quote the whole thread next time.

Yuph, I also checked the reference and it contains a guide for what cryptocurrency you should choose to buy (actually the thread somehow deserves to receive Merit), that user clear cookie was just trying to mess up with @clear cookies I guess.

I believed that the bold one should be "spammer", if I'm not mistaken scam is not moderated so scammers won't be banned

Well thanks for bringing this up. I'm just curious how that clear cookie found out that @clear cookies is the one who reported him. But now I know it already.

OP, keep up the good work. You might encounter a lot of people in reporting and some poeple will really hate you and drag you down but don't get affected, they won't be able to do anything against you as long as you're in the right path.

First, how can you prove that these accounts were owned by a single person? Providing their eth and bitcoin addresses is not enough evidence.

Second, Moderators cannot ban these accounts if these accounts were not used to cheat in any bounty campaigns. Creating alternative accounts is not prohibited by the forum rules but shouldn't use for cheating.

Third, you should have posted this topic here Known Alts of any-one - A User Generated List Mk III (2018 Q3).

Those guys before were really so lucky. Now as a regular guy, it will take years before I get 1 Bitcoin in total  

Really had no idea where they spent those Bitcoins, except to that pizza guy before.

Can I ask something? Where did you reported this user? I mean did you reported him/her as spammer or something using the "Report to Moderator" button? Because if yes, how did s/he knew that you're the one who reported him/her? So it's possible that the intention of putting Red feedback on your profile is not a revenge.

Anyway, the feedback won't affect anything to you and your profile. It's obvious that the feedback is a complete nonsense.